First Among Nisei: The Life and Writings of Masaji Marumoto (Peoples of Hawai'i, the Pacific, and Asia) - Softcover

Dennis M. Ogawa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824831411 ISBN 13: 9780824831417

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007

Synopsis

First Among Nisei Primarily based on Masaji Marumoto's oral histories, this book is an account of Marumoto's life and career-from the time he was a child until he was well into his retirement years in the mid-1980s. One of Hawaii's most distinguished Nisei, Marumoto was the first person of Asian ancestry to graduate from Harvard Law School, the first Japanese American president of the Hawaii Bar Association, and the first Japanese American to serve on the Hawaii Supreme Court. This volume includes portions of a diary Marumoto kept as a fourteen-year-old schoolboy and letters to his wife and son during his World War II military service. It is an intimate portrait of a remarkab...

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About the Author:

Dennis M. Ogawa is professor and chair in the Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i. He is the author of numerous books on Japanese Americas, including Jan Ken Po: The World of Hawaii's Japanese Americans and Kodomo no Tame ni: For the Sake of the Children.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0824831411
• ISBN 13: 9780824831417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244